What wall color with this bedding? (pic)

18 years ago

Here is the manuf's bedding pic:

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Furniture is a honey pine color. Everything is more vivid than pictured, especially the plaid and the green, but we're only dealing with the bumper, skirt, quilt and sheet.

Curtains are a sheer in a coral color that compliments the skirt but doesn't match exactly. Three panels and a scarf, so lots of color coming from the windows. Accents, window hardware, etc. are mostly white with bits of color. Trim in the room is stained, not white.

I'm hearing a lot of "paint the walls green" but there's a LOT of green here already. The green on the bedding is intense, but a light hue, not limey. I don't care for pink walls like in the manuf picture. There's so much color already I'm thinking we need to have the walls be a grounding element for neutral. I'm leaning toward a pale yellow (along the lines of Powell Buff or Ivoire), or a rich cream that's not too far removed from white (Navajo White, Creme, something light that).

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patty_cakes
18 years ago
Love the bedding, but i'm a pink and green lover from longgggg ago. Definitely Ivory! But use an ivory that doesn't have yellow undertones. Hold the swatches next to one another to determine if there are green/yellow/orange/brown undertones. It will be subtle, but you'll see the differences if you hold them together. You want a 'clean' ivory.

The only one i've used in the past is the Navajo, but I remember it as having yellow undertones. What paint manufacturer are you using? Sherwin Williams has a lot of ivories and gives excellent coverage IMO.
leahwalker
Original Author
18 years ago
Hi Patty Cakes, thanks for the reply! Our painter uses Sherwin Williams paints, but they have promised me accuracy if they color match from another company.
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tracey_b
18 years ago
What about both soft green (sage) and pink on the walls--one upper, one lower and meeting together in the middle in a "harlequin" pattern? I don't know if that's the right term or not. I saw the cutest little girl's room using sage green and lavendar done like that and I wanted to replicate it even without having any children, it was that cute.

The best I could describe it would be..... let's say pink on top, green on bottom. Instead of the 2 colors meeting in a straight line in the middle of the wall, the lower color looked like the top of a picket fence (^^^^^^^....) and the top color coming down the same way.

Anyway, I thought it was cute, and those 2 colors would be similar and a great way to use both colors without one being too overwhelmingly dominant in the room.